Rhythm and pattern follow with precision the rich tonality of Lucas’s visual and aural perceptions delivered with just enough tension to allow a line to run free or a word to drop and hang alone where it dances or stops
– Amanda Joy Cordite
Lucas’s collection shines with a clear intelligence and keen observation of the everyday, landscape, place, art, love and grief. The poems, evocative and moving, also sit so lightly on the page.
– Lucy Dougan, Philip Mead and Marcella Polain, Mary Gilmore Award Judges 2014
Lucas’s poems are composed of vivid bursts of colour
– Cassandra Atherton, ABR
